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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@bitnova.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 20:46:47 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) wrote:
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- >: >I believe neither one is often used by the average consumer. But an FPU can be
- >: >slotted, a CPU swap is required to incorporate the MMU. You might look more
-
- >: Who says the MMU can't be socketed? I know it was socketed for use with
- >: the 020, and unless there are special signal lines required for MMU usage
- >: AND the EC030 lacks them, I don't see this as a problem.
-
- >I think you'd be hard pressed to find a good supply of 68551s.
-
- Um, 68851, I believe, but I get it. :-) And I don't either you or I have
- any factual information to back up either side of the statement. I won't
- say they're common without something to prove it, but I don't think you
- have anything that really shows concrete proof that they're hard to get
- in quantity, either. Appologies if you do, I'd love to see it.
-
- > And it's
- >just a stupid solution to what shouldn't even be a problem. AT has to be
- >willing to LEAD, not meekly follow where everyone else has abandoned. An
- >EC 030 is not a leadership statement.
-
- Jason, a CISC Amiga isn't a "leadership statement" PERIOD. This ain't
- the end objective of thier product line, it's simply a mechanism to give
- them a wider product line that makes SENSE as opposed to an obnoxiously
- under-expandable console -or- an obnoxiously expensive tower.
-
- If you, and others like you, insist on overloading the BASE model of the
- new Amiga with high-priced components, then you're sending a statement of
- your own: the message that you wish to exclude a large segment of the
- potential Amiga market.
-
- I think the EC030 is just FINE for the ---> BASE <--- machine. It has a
- frinkin' CPU slot, have you forgotten how we did things back in 1990,
- with the A2000? Drop in a different CPU card, and boom, a new model.
-
- ATg have made a logical, low-cost BASE machine that is probably going to
- be in reach for a LOT more people than an 040-based or 060 based system
- would.
-
- Bellyache all you want about it, but I think I can speak for a LOT of
- Amiga owners: an EC030/40 Mhz is a LOT faster than what I'm using NOW,
- and throw in AGA graphics... well. Thumb your nose at us all you want,
- Jason, but remember that not everyone is using a 120 MHz 060
- dual-processor Amiga quite yet...
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